Military Policing Is Not The Answer

Some time back on Travel Channel programme, Househunters International, a young African American flight attendant was featured house hunting in the greater Gaborone. She was accompanied by her opinionated mother on the mission.

The first property they viewed was in a multi residential place in Tlokweng. Affordable and secure, was the estate agent’s selling point. But to the young American’s mother, security features was what scared her off the most.

“Why all these barbed wires? You want to tell me all places in Gaberon are like this?”

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Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

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